I need some thoughts from my readers, what genres do you think suit Dark Diamonds?

edit: The genres have new colors site-side now. "AU, crossover, EqG, tragedy, sad, human, mystery, thriller, second person, [slice-of-life,] and sci-fi" all still have blue.

This script is useful for if you want to change them to something else, or still want those un-colored genres to 'pop'. Say, if you wanted to make all tags you disliked black.

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(continued from part 1 & part 2)

The Sub-Genres of Mystery

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It's when something's funny and you laugh at it until you poop yourself a little.

Good talk, folks.

Thanks to Meeester making me jump through a few hoops to get my latest story approved, I now have all the FimFiction genre tags in picture form HERE, though I suppose if I knew more I probably could have found the buttons themselves embedded somewhere in the site's "Edit Story" page source code. Oh well. Life is an

Wow. A lot of people seem to really like this story. I often write fics that get a lot of likes but almost no reviews. Fimfiction has spoiled us with that thumbs up/down option. "Why back in my day, if ya'll like a story ya'd review it. Ain't no point likin' it if ya'll don't tell the darn writer why." - And that was my very poor hillybilly on a porch impression.

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Hi every pony, I have a big problem. The problem is that when I submit stories, they’re never proofread for grammatical and spelling errors. And that’s bad, for me at least. If you want to proofread my latest book-in-the making, this is required:

1) Trustworthiness.
2) If you’re at a HS level or higher.
3) If your compatibility is perfectly synced with your proofreading.
And number 4) Good at keeping passwords hidden.

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Do any of you have a genre or multiple genres that you are overly attached to?
I'm really attached to Sadfics for some weird reason.

Today, I'd like to talk about genre--what it means, how it applies to stories, and what you can do to improve your story's genre. A lot of this will be based off of Shawn Coyne's Story Grid, which you can find for free on his website if you're interested.

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Copy pasting a comment here, just so it doesn't get lost. It applies to everyone of the 203 people who've read my story so far. But...

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If I were to write my own version of Fallout Equestria (with blackjack & hookers) would y'all read it? See what my take would be? Now this doesn't mean I would, but if I did, (or do if the cards are right) would you all read such a thing? or should I stick to cheesy romances and silly fluff?

A couple of weeks ago, Bad Horse (part 1, part 2, and part 3) and bookplayer posted their analyses of

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The last time I set up a story, we had... like, ten genres. Romance, Adventure, Slice of Life, Dark, Comedy, Random (you also basically needed the first if you had the second), Sad, Tragedy (once again, need the first if you have the second), Crossover, and Alternate Universe. And then Human was added a bit later before I kind of vanished.

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Mysteries. Everybody thinks they know what they are. I’m beginning to think maybe no one does.

Scholastic’s genre chart says:

Purpose: To engage in and enjoy solving a puzzle. Explore moral satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) at resolution. Consider human condition and how to solve or avoid human problems.

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I refer everyone who liked my recent posts on mysteries, or bookplayer's recent post on fantasy, to Catalysts Cradle's excellent post Defining the readers of each

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(This continues from The Mystery of Mysteries, part 1: Core narratives of genres.)

Famous Fictional Mysteries

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I think it was inevitable that this post was going to happen sooner or later.

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Hey readers! Welcome back to the start of another week! I hope you all had a pretty good weekend! Mine went well. In fact, I’ve got some good news for you.

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